Events

Nearly one-third of all the food that is produced in the world never gets eaten. By some estimates, we waste 30 million tons of food in the U.S. and 1.3 billion metric tons worldwide every year. All this waste has huge economic, environmental, and social costs. Ned Spang, an assistant professor in the Department of

Paul Eastwick’s research investigates how people initiate romantic relationships and the psychological mechanisms that help romantic partners to remain committed and attached. One of his research programs examines how the qualities that people say are critically important to them in a romantic partner—their ideal partner preferences—direct romantic partner selection and retention. He is also interested in

David Olson, an assistant professor in the UC Davis departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, is investigating whether sub-hallucinogenic doses of psychedelic compounds like LSD and dimethyltryptamine could lead to new treatments for depression, anxiety and related disorders without the unwanted hallucinogenic effects. Read more here. Registration information coming soon.

With Brant Allen, UC Davis TERC Field Station Manager/Boat Captain/Lead Research Diver, TERC will present a discussion on the history of Brant Allen's work in Lake Tahoe. Allen, long time researcher at Lake Tahoe, will present photos and reminiscences from his three decades of studying Lake Tahoe’s clarity, productivity, and food web changes. Recently, Tahoe’s

Registration coming soon! Join the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center to Circumnavigate Lake Tahoe for Science and Scott Fitzgerrell. This kayaking event, TERC CIRC 3, will take place over seven days, starting Monday, June 19 and concluding Sunday, June 25. Many people have paddled Tahoe’s shores, but this event is unique. In addition to

The Tahoe State of the Lake report informs nonscientists about important factors affecting the health of Lake Tahoe and provides the scientific underpinnings for restoration and management decisions within the Lake Tahoe Basin. The 2023 report summarizes data collected during 2022 in the context of the long-term record of research at Lake Tahoe. UC Davis researchers

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer.  He is the author of about twenty books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future.  He was part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995 and 2016, and a featured